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Gillian Sankoff

Communications

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#1433

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Linguistics

#263

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#353

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Gillian Sankoff's Degrees

PhD Linguistics University of Pennsylvania
Masters Linguistics University of Pennsylvania
Bachelors Linguistics University of Pennsylvania

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According to Wikipedia, Gillian Elizabeth Sankoff is a Canadian-American sociolinguist, and professor emerita of linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania. Sankoff's notable former students include Miriam Meyerhoff. Biography She earned her PhD in 1968 from McGill University, with a dissertation entitled, "Social aspects of multilingualism in New Guinea."

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Gillian Sankoff's Published Works

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Language change across the lifespan: /r/ in Montreal French (2007) (374)
Linguistic Outcomes of Language Contact (2008) (244)
The origins of syntax in discourse: A case study of Tok Pisin relatives [reprint of 1976 article in Language] (1976) (205)
Variation in the use of discourse markers in a language contact situation (1997) (177)
The Social Life of Language (1986) (164)
10. On the Acquisition of Native Speakers by a Language (1980) (127)
Age grading in the Montréal French inflected future (2011) (96)
Age: Apparent Time and Real Time (2006) (94)
Explorations in the Ethnography of Speaking: A Quantitative Paradigm for the Study of Communicative Competence (1989) (90)
Quantitative Analysis of Sharing and Variability in a Cognitive Model (1971) (75)
4. Above and Beyond Phonology in Variable Rules (1980) (71)
2. Language Use in Multilingual Societies: Some Alternate Approaches (1980) (41)
The grammaticalization of tense and aspect in Tok Pisin and Sranan (1990) (40)
Individual roles in a real-time change: Montreal (r->R) 1947-1995 (2001) (36)
Age-grading in retrograde movement: The inflected future in Montréal French (2006) (35)
Man's Many Voices (1970) (32)
14. The Productive Use of ne in Spoken Montréal French (1980) (28)
13. Anything You Can Do (1980) (27)
On the Acquisition of Variable Phonology in L2 (1996) (27)
Language Change Across the Lifespan (2018) (25)
Focus in Tok Pisin (1993) (24)
Language change across the lifespan: Three trajectory types (2019) (17)
The fronting of the back upgliding vowels in Charleston , South Carolina (2008) (17)
Variation, Versatility and Change in Sociolinguistics and Creole Studies (2019) (16)
Sociolinguistic research on French in Montréal (1972) (16)
The Long Tail of Language Change: Québécois French Futures in Real Time (2012) (13)
Pidgins and creoles. Vol. 1. Theory and structure. By John A. Holm (1991) (12)
14. POLITICAL POWER AND LINGUISTIC INEQUALITY IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA (1976) (12)
A Quantitative Analysis of Diphthongization in Montreal French (2010) (10)
Rhotics : New Data and Perspectives (2013) (9)
Determining Noun Phrases in Tok Pisin (1991) (8)
12. Variability and Explanation in Language and Culture: Cliticization in New Guinea Tok Pisin (1980) (8)
Before There Were Corpora : The Evolution of the Montreal French Project as a Longitudinal Study 1 (2017) (8)
5. Multilingualism in Papua New Guinea (1980) (8)
Linguistic Outcomes of Bilingualism (2013) (8)
Cognitive Variability and New Guinea Social Organization: The Buang Dgwa1 (1972) (7)
6. Mutual Intelligibility, Bilingualism, and Linguistic Boundaries (1980) (5)
Creolization and Syntactic Change in New Guinea Tok Pisin (1977) (5)
A. Valdman (ed.), Pidgin and creole linguistics , Indiana University Press, 1977. Pp. 399. (1979) (5)
The long tail of language change: A trend and panel study of Québécois French futures (2020) (4)
Instability of the [r] ~ [R] alternation in Montreal French: the conditioning of a sound change in progress (2010) (4)
Derek Bickerton, Dynamics of a creole system . London: Cambridge University Press, 1975. Pp. viii + 224. (1977) (3)
Paul Garvin, ed., Method and theory in linguistics . The Hague: Mouton, 1970. Pp. 336. (1972) (2)
The speech community as a social fact (2015) (1)
Gillian Sankoff. Age: Apparent time and real time. (2006) (1)
Studies in Multilingualism. NELS ANDERSON, ed (1971) (1)
Transmission Revisited (2019) (1)
Computational Linguistics Research at the University of Pennsylvania (1983) (0)
7. Wave Versus Stammbaum Explanations of Lexical Similarities (1980) (0)
Roger M. Keesing May 16, 1935 - May 7, 1993 (1994) (0)
Building on Empirical Foundations: Individual and Community Change in Real Time (2019) (0)
Pidgins and Creoles, Volume 2: Reference Survey. John Holm. (1991) (0)
Age Grading, Style, and Language Change (2019) (0)
A local history of Tok Pisin (2021) (0)
THE ETHNO SEMANTICS OF EXCELLENCE (1973) (0)
GENERAL: L'Ethnologue et son ombre. Michel Panoff and Françoise Panoff (1969) (0)
Language Contact in Amazonia (Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald) (2005) (0)
David C. Gordon, The French language and national identity. The Hague: Mouton, 1978. Pp. 225. (1982) (0)

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University of Pennsylvania